Becoming the West

Introduction: 

In this study tour will be exploring Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota, will learn many of the marvelous that these places hide and surprise us , where we are also working on a project from different themes each student with what 's investigate each we could expose .

Becoming the West

Introduction  : In this study tour will be exploring Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota, will learn many of the marvelous that these places hide and surprise us , where we are also working on a project from different themes each student with what 's investigate each we could expose .

I LOVE TACOS 






SIGNIFICANCE: \This is my favorite food because you enchant me the tacos are very good but that makes my mom and I do remember her.

And even though you're full want to continue eating tacos

 INGREDIENTS:

Cabbage
Coriander
Onion
Tomatoes
Chilies
Tortillas
Meat
Oil

Garlic and Salt    

                              PREPARATION : All vegetables and chop tomatoes and peppers get to stitching together because they are tender add garlic and salt and grind them in a blender that's how we prepare the 

sauce.

He begins to heat the oil to brown the meat after test it itches.

In the same oil put heat tortillas to grab a good taste , then to serve tacos with meat and vegetables and prepare to taste with the sauce.

And Ready

Love in a soup :3

Melon's little seeds Soap

Ingredients:

• 1 package of Melon's little seeds pasta (this in specific)
• .030 lt of Vegetable Oil
• .400 lt of chicken broth  
• .750 kg of tomatoes 
• .050 kg of white onion 
• .005 kg of garlic 
• .005 kg of oregano 
• Pinch of Salt 

Served with (optional):

• Fresh or cotija cheese 
• Sour cream
• Banana sliced 

Preparation:

• Bring to boil the tomatoes and then blend it with the oregano, white onion and a pinch of salt. Reserve the sauce.
• Saute the melon's little seeds pasta with the oil, keep moving to it turn golden. 
• Pour the sauce and the half of the broth. wait to reduce the half and pour the rest of the broth.
• Bring to boil (if is by simmer tastes better).

SIGNIFICANCE

This soup is special for me because reminds me that once when I was child I got sick from the stomach, the only what my body accepted was this soup made it by my mom with this specific shape, my mom took care of me those days more than others and I could feel a lot love, brings me flashbacks from my mom and I being really closed and lovely. The Melon's seed soup made it for other people (even me) doesn't taste me as good as my mom's soup.

Note: Doesn't mean that I don't have my mom's love now, is just that brings me a lovely scene. :P

Chicken Crêpes with red sweet pepper cream (Mom's recipe )

"This dish is really important to mi because my mom only prepare this on Christmas, this mean once in the year when whole family is together. Is my favorite dish, also this is the first dish my mom teach me."

Crêpes 

• 1/2 kg of Flour 
• 75 ml of Vegetable oil
• 2 pz Eggs
• q/r of Milk
• pinch of Salt

Mix all ingredients in a blender and reserve.

Chicken Picadillo

1 kg of Chicken breast 

2 Potatoes 

2 Carrots 

1 Tomato

3 gr of Garlic

30 gr of Onion

tablespoon of Butter

15 ml of Vegetable oil  

q/r of Salt

q/r of Pepper 

2 small Bay leaves 

Boil the chicken in water with salt and pepper until it is cooked. Then shred chicken breast and reserve. wash and peel the carrots and potatoes, then dice it and reserve. Chop the tomato, onion and garlic, then saute theses vegetables for 5 minutes then add chicken and cooked for 10 minutes more, add the carrots and potatoes dices, cover the pot and cooked for another 10 minutes. Reserve. 

In a pan spread butter and add enough crepes mix to made a tortilla, cooked for 1 minute each side until it be completed cooked. Made a taco with crepes tortilla and picadillo, put into a baking refractory and reserve. 

Red sweet pepper cream

• 1 can of red sweet pepper
• 250 gr of acid cream 
• pinch of Salt
• q/r of Milk 

Mix all in a blender.Pour the cream on the tacos crepes and bake for 20 minutes at 120 centigrado grades. AND READY! 

Note: I don't know the real quantities of this recipe, because I learned it with my mom.

Eddie's recipe

This is my favorite food and recipe because I grew up eating Pozole in the happiest moments of my life. When it was a relative, friend or even my birthday then we used to eat this traditional Mexican dish. At any Mexican party it is the most common dish because it is delicious; in addition, it is cooked with corn and everyone gets full. Always I eat this food then it brings me good childhood memories. I love to eat it with tostadas and spacy special homemade sauce and of course with a coca-cola in a glass with ice!

The BEST Lasagna Ever!

Here is the recipe to my mother's (and now mine) famous lasagna. It is the best I have ever had!

This recipe is significant to me because it is one of the first dishes my mother ever taught me to make, and one we used to make together throughout my childhood. It has always been my favorite type of food, ever since the first time we cooked it together. When my mother took my request for a special birthday dish on my birthdays, I would always choose her lasagna! 

I make it now when I have friends over or for a nice dinner. It is simple to make, and one of the most delicious dishes! 

I hope you enjoy this secret family recipe!

I would like to learn more things in English and understand more about the meaning of each word ,and how to express myself more in English

Dalia's

Hello I'm Dalia.

Favorite Recipes

Students,

I have decided to skip a blog post assignment for Thursday/Friday. However, Thursday's cookout inspired our next blog topic, for which a post is due Sunday/Monday. By Monday evening, please write a post about your favorite recipe. Please post the recipe and explain in paragraph form why the recipe is your favorite, and what significance it has for you (why you picked it, what it reminds you of, etc.).

I look forward to sharing recipes with you!

Prof. Teri

P.S. Remember that your homework due Monday is to choose a "hot topic" for your argumentative essay and create a complete outline with your main idea, arguments (your side and the opposing side), and details to support your arguments. Use the notes we took in class and your writing packet to type up the format for your outline. You will also have to research to develop your arguments. Good luck!

Eddie: Garden Tour

How many gardeners help to maintain the flowers and plants?

We have 6 gardeners taking care of a different zone.

Could you tell us a problem you had in the garden?  How did you handle it?

"Well, once they wanted to put grass in a new area, and I went to talk to the dean to plant flowers insted of grass, so I told him that I only needed $3000 dollars and I convince him."

Sustainability:

The drainage network is design very well to have sustainability, so if it rains the water do not block up.

Some of the plants are donated.

Curious facts I learned:

There are some areas where they cannot plant or dig because there are cables.

“This plant spreads like crazy” which means It grows all around very fast (hilarious expression!)

“People when they first want to start a garden, they freeze because they are afraid plants won’t grow up or it won’t work. But, they have to believe everything you do will work”

Ear Elephant plant

Flora, Flowers, Fauna and Sustainability Tour at Campus UW-Whitewater

In this Tour I saw different kinds of flowers around the campus. The campus has 6 gardeners and each one is  in charge of one different a area of the campus and they decide what kind of flower plant. 

The sustainability department no only is in charge to create projects how can help to conserve water, but they almost all have some aspect of financial savings to the taxpayers. This department is in chard of some important activities here in the UW-Whitewater, like:

• Repurposed containers
• Harvesting rain water
• Bioswales (are landscape elements designed to remove silt from surface runoff water.)

The waterfall was part of some kind of project of Sustainability?  

No really, this project was made thanks to donations (money, flowers and material). The purpose of this project was redecorate the campus.

 Who pay for all the sustainability projects, here in UW-Whitewater?

Everybody, all this is possible thanks to donation of people.

Garden Tour

This day we made a tour on the gardens of UWW, our guide Steve Bortinelli, the person who is in charge of the gardens and sustainability program on UWW gave us a lot information about his work, also he answered the next questions:

1.- How many kind of plants and flowers there are on the campus of UWW?
   Over 100 for all, some flowers are wild, we didn't cultivated but we adopted as part of our garden, because we are cheap (laughing in this last sentence).

2.- Since when you stared cultivate flowers on the campus? 
     Around 15 years, I've been working here since 2000, the gardens were very different, but we still working on many projects and  improvements.

3.- Could you give us an example of sustainability used on the campus?
     Sure, the fountain's water is pumping constantly, we made this to not waste clean water, as well the vases which are on the lamps were can trash one day, but we decide give it other use, it's a way to save money, because... We are cheap! (continuing laughing)  

Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) MLA Formatting

Hello everyone!

I loved reading about your quotes! How wonderful!
Here is the online resource Sarah showed us the other day during our citation workshop.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

It outlines the specifics of citing sources in MLA format.

Please remember to bring your completed debate notes and preparation sheet tomorrow, as well as what you worked on with Anjie last week. I am looking forward to seeing all of your hard work!

¡Hasta mañana!

Prof. Teri

Eddie: Quote

This quote defines me because I believe that every single person is changing the world in a positive way. So, it is essential that we believe always in ourselves. We should not wait for somebody else to do important things to change the world. If we wait for a future change then it will never happen. Also, we need to be conscious that every single thing we do in our daily life is vital for world’s progress. We need to understand that we are the world right now!

Quote

"Ask not what your country can do for you country; ask what you can do for your country" 

-John F. Kenedy

I like this quote because I feel identified, I think to improve and change as society is necessary start changing by ourselves, think different, make good things no matter who is watching, be honest, then if we adopt a nice attitude, if we change our mind may be we can be an example to other persons, and on one point rice a little person with this thoughts and it will rice their children at the same way, and repetitively, as string. May be we could change as society  see for others and not selfishly.  

Quote

• The meaning of this quote is very significant to me because all is true. Nobody can judge you and you can't judge nobody cause nobody have her "hands clean". That's mean nobody is perfect. So live your life and let live!

Summaries & Paraphrase (Edited)

DESIGNS FROM NATURE

In a room at Stanford University, scientists are studying a small animal called a gecko. It can move very quickly up and down a tree and even upside down on ceiling. The scientists are particularly interested in the gecko's feet. They want to use the same design on a metal robot that looks very similar to the gecko. This kind of science is called Biomimetics. This science not only has helped to design our world but promise many more possibilities.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNET

The Internet began as a project in the 1960's. It was based on a new idea about how to send information. The system of this project is base on packet switching, this system divides up information into smaller pieces, or packets. The packets are sent over a network. If one route are busy, the packets take a different rout. It make the network very fast and reliable.

By the 1990's, the World Wide Web was in place. By the middle of the 1990's, there was a huge amount of traffic on the web. E-Mail and other forms of communication  over the Web had spread throughout the world.

The impact of the Internet

It is hard to imagine life without the Internet.Many people consider the Internet to be an important democratic institution because it make information available to anyone with access to a computer connected to the Internet. In 2002, a U.S Department of Commerce report noted that there were 2 million new Internet users every month.

PARAPHRASING PARAGRAPH (First one of "DESIGNS FROM NATURE")

Gecko is an amazing animal, it can climb and down a tree, that's way scientists of University of Stanford are analyzing this little animal.They're more interested in the gecko's limbs and apply the same design in their robot. It can walk up walls made of glass or plastic.

Summary and paraphrase corrected

THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET 

Internet has permitted the greatest exchange of information in history. People publish their work and ideas, before the internet publication was expensive. With the intention of  Browser, it has also become easy to find information quickly. Many people consider the Internet to be an important democratic institution because it makes information available   to anyone with access to the Internet.

      Although the web has brought advantages, it also presents problems. Many people can share ideas but it also spread hatred and false information. Finally, the same technology that give us access to other peoples information give other people access to our private information.

      People with higher incomes and educational levels are more likely to have access to the internet and all the advantages it brings.

DESIGNS FROM NATURE 

Scientists from Stanford are studying an animal called gecko, it can move very quickly up and down a tree, even upside down, the scientists are interesting in gecko's feet, they wan to use the same design on a metal robot.

      Animals and plants are studied by scientists, this science is called boimimetics and study the nature to copy their design.

              For example, engineer in Canada are studying whale flippers because the shaper can improve the movement of wind turbines, engineers from Mercedes Benz used the shape of the box fish in a new car because it makes the car faster, other invents as velcro, paint products that don't allow water and dirt to sick are were crated by the biomimetics too.

      The nature brings ideas to engineers but as long the nature take a long time to develop the scientists too.

PARAPHRASING 

Designs from Nature (paragraph 2)

Biomimetics is the science that is in charge of research the flora and fauna's structure, the nature can be the response in the moment that engineers can not figure out a trouble.  

      The word biomimetics becomes from the prefix Bio "living things" and the suffix Mimetics "copy their design".

Class, Homework 7/23/15

Proyecta students,

Here is your class schedule for today, 7/23:

9:00am-10:15am:  Review each others' paraphrases and summaries and leave comments and suggestions. (Please see yesterday's homework blog post if you are unsure what I mean.) This was homework from yesterday. Once you receive feedback, please edit and make corrections to your own paraphrase and summaries, and repost them as comments beneath your original posts. I will review these.

10:15am-10:30am: Break

10:35am-12:05pm: Please meet Sarah in our classroom or computer lab. Sarah will have a lesson for you today to begin your project for the weekend.

12:05pm-1:00pm: Lunch

1:00pm-3:00pm: Work time on Formal Technology Debate Notes and Preparation. You may work in the computer lab, in the library, Starin, or another comfortable, productive location on campus.  (A copy of the homework sheet and resources has been sent to your university e-mail.)

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Homework due by 11:59pm Thursday, 7/23: Blog Post: Post your edited and revised copy of the summaries and paraphrase from Tuesday as a comment to your original post. You should have used comments and suggestions from me and your classmates to make the corrections.

Homework due by 11:59pm Sunday, 7/26: Blog Post: Choose a quote that defines you, says something about you, or is simply your favorite. Post the quote, recognize the original author or speaker of the quote, and explain what the quote means, what it says about you, how it defines you, and why it is your favorite. Include a minimum of 5 sentences (quote not included).

Homework by classtime Monday 7/27: Bring the printed, completed copy of the Formal Technology Debate Notes and Preparation (completed includes 2 arguments for pros and 2 for cons for each topic, all sources listed, and a works cited page). This will be half of your debate project grade. We will be using this completed homework for an activity in class.